It’s the Great Big Green Week, and the spotlight is back on our industry’s efforts to help tackle climate change.
There are plenty of things we can be doing – some small, and some requiring much greater effort and focus – to make sure that our work in live events is part of the solution, not part of the problem.
At the simpler end of the scale, issuing our teams with sustainability checklists makes for quick wins – eliminating single use plastics and plastic-based shipping materials, ensuring print items are minimised, recycled and recyclable, managing the use of lanyards and wristbands – there are dozens of seemingly minor and easily-identified red flags that we can watch out for when planning every project, that over the course of a year’s business can make a huge difference.
The challenges get tougher when working with venues. There’s a wide disparity, even among the UK’s top conference centres, between those who work sustainably and those who only say they do. Can they tell you how they source their power, do they have a clean energy policy and will they allow you to see it, how do they recycle their waste, do they use non-toxic cleaning agents and detergents, what water- and electricity-saving measures do they have in place? There’s a long list of questions we need to be asking – and the more companies that ask these questions, the greater the number of venues that will shift to more measurable and sustainable operations.
During the Great Big Green Week, let’s pioneer sustainable event planning together. Share your green event tips and inspire others to join the movement! 🌱
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